Voucher sheet



F. W. DREW.

VOUCHER SHEET.

APPLICATION FILED SEPT. 24, 1920.

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VOUCHER- SHEET.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Apr. 4, 1922.

Application filed September 24, 1920. Serial No. 412,430.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, FRANK W. DREW, citizen of" the United States, resident of Minneapolis, in the county of Hennepin and State of Minnesota, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Voucher Sheets, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to voucher sheets adapted for use in connection with the maintenance of a record providing a plurality of time divisions which are adapted to receive labor charge entries therein, and for use as a negotiable instrument to be filled out in payment of labor charges which instrument is adapted to be endorsed by the payee whereby a receipt is had. These novel voucher sheets are useful, not only in providing means for the, daily entries of notations of timeunits of labor, usually hours or fractions thereof, but also for the daily entries of such hours of labor under variant classifications. The necessity forsuch diversified classification arises from the fact that the different rates of payment are neces sary for the same time-unit for the same labor and the same individual. For eX ample, such classification is here shown as rate. and a half, and over-time double rate.

These novel voucher sheets are adapted to be used in complementary pairs and when so used it is preferable that each sheet of such pair be either loosely or permanently bound in a suitable holder. For such use provision is made for the separation of one sheet of the complementary pairs. Such separable or detachable sheet is that which may be given to the payee whose labor charges are noted on the sheets. Obviously, when these voucher sheets are used in complementary pairs thesame identical notations are made in the corresponding spaces provided for such notation on each sheet. done by entering the proper notations twice but, in practice, is effected by means of the usual sheet ofcarbon paper which is inserted between the complementary pairs when notation is made upon either one. When referring to these voucher sheets as used incomplementary pairs, one of the sheets may conveniently be referred to as the record sheet and the other may be referred to as the detachable or separable sheet. These two terms are employed only for the purposes of This may be explanation as of course it is understood that the seriesof pairs of sheets may all be held together .111 an ordinary form of loose-leaf binder. I

The object of this invention is to provide a new and improved voucher sheet.

Other objects of the invention will more fully appear from the following description and the accompanying drawings, and will be pointed out in the annexed claims.

In the drawings there has been disclosed a selected embodiment of this invention as particularly adapted for use in railroad accounting, but it is to be understood that the invention is not confined to the exact features shown as various changes may be made within the scope of the claims which follow.

In. the drawings:

Figure 1 shows voucher sheets in complementary pairs in the manner in which they may be conveniently bound in a holder.

Figure 2 is a plan view of the obverse face of two duplicate voucher sheets.

Figure 3 is a plan view of the reverse face of the same.

In the embodiment here shown the voucher sheets are disclosed in joined duplicates as such is the form in which this invention is now being employed in railroad work. Each voucher sheet has an obverse face 4 (Figure 2) provided with divisions within which the labor charge entries may be noted. The reverse face5 (Figure 3) of each voucher sheet is the one which provides the negotiable instrument having spaces to be filled out in payment of the labor charges noted on the obverse face of the voucher.

. The obverse face 4 is provided with a longitudinally extending upper portion 6.

which is provided as shown with spaces within which entries may bemade to identify the employee and the year and month within which the labor was performed. The middle portion of this obverse face has a pluralityv of vertical or transverse lines which provide this portion with a plurality of columns. These columns are consecutively numbered to indicate the successive days of themonth. As shown in-the drawings the latter half of the month is so indicated.

Owing to the necessity for differentrate classifications for the same labor of the same employee, it is necessary that each daily column be provided with aplurality of sub divisions within which the time-units of labor performed within any given day may be appropriately entered. This subdivision is effected by means of a plurality of horizontal or longitudinal lines which thus provide the defined spaces or sub-divisions 8 to receive entries under the appropriate classifications. V

This obverse face 4 is also provided with a column 9 having sub-divisions wherein may be entered the total time for the period covered by the voucher sheet for labor performed in the different classifications. Another vertical column 10 is similarly provided so that the different money rates per unit of labor may be placed opposite the different classifications, and preferably, beyond these total time and rate columns is placed the amount column so that the total sum due the given employee for each of the difl'erentrate classifications of labor per formed may be entered in this amount col umn. The horizontal or longitudinal lines also provide a total row 12 wherein the total time of labor for each day and the total amount for the labor for the period covered may be entered in the appropriate columns which this total row intersects.

The obverse face of this voucher sheet also contains a blank lined portion wherein defined spaces 13 are provided for notation of the amount and identification of any deductions" which are charged against the employee for the period of the sheet. A sub division 14 is also provided in the amount column 11 wherein maybe entered the sum of the deductions, opposite the heading Less deductions. The difference between said total amount and'the deductions provides the balance due the employee. Such charge is noted in the space 15, as shown in Figure 2, and constitutes the notation of the total money equivalent of said entries of labor performedby the employee or payee.

The obverse face also preferably has a portion provided with a space 16 to receive the endorsement of the employee to whom payment is made for the labor performed.

This space is provided so that the negotiv of this voucher may be cashed by the em able "instrumentprovided on the reverse face ployee after being lilled out by the payer.

i This endorsement constitutes a receipt not "only for the money had but also'as an acknowledgment of payment for labor performed as set forth by the entries on the obverse face of the "sheet.

The reverse face 5 of the voucher sheet provides the negotiable instrument or pay check of the payer for the total money equivalent of the performed labor. This gay eheck'is provided with spaces 17 to be lied out in the selected embodiment here shown. by the payer company. The data W to be entered in the various spaces is definitely and clearly indicated in the accompanying drawings and enumeration would be simply repetitious.

These voucher sheets are preferably employed in complementary pairs. A convenient number of such complementary pairs are preferably bound together in a looseleaf or permanent binder. As hereshown, in Figure 1, they are shown as permanently bound in a holder 18. When used in complementary pairs, one sheet of each pair is adapted to remain in the holder and constitutes what may be termed the record sheet 19. The other sheet of a complementary pair is termed the separable sheet 20. The separable sheet is provided with a line of separation 21, the usual perforated line to facilitate removal of the sheet from the portion 22 retained by the binder or holder 18. lVhen assembled in bound form, as indicated in Figure 1, the separable end record sheets alternate so that identical notation may be made on each of a complementary pair as by use of carbon paper as is common.

In practical use, the reverse face of the sheet in which case original entry will be made on the record sheet and the carbonimprint or corresponding entry will be received on the separable sheet.

As here shown, these novel voucher sheets are preferably prepared in joined duplicates. That is,the vouchersheets are prepared in duplicate on a single piece of paper. being readily detachable by tearin g hor cutting along the perforated line 23. is procedure is simply a matter of convenience as eaclrretained or record page of the holder will contain two record sheets as shown in Figure 1. The duplicate record sheets on a single page are not provided with a perforated line of separation, simplya longitudinally extending blanlr portion 24;: there appearing.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new" and desire to, secure by Letters Patent is: V v

1. A. voucher sheet having on its obverse face an appropriately designated space for endorsement and a plurality of app'roprL ately designated time divisions, each of the divisions having a plurality of approprt" ately designated sub-divisions where y dif ferent labor time-unit entries may be made in each division; and an appropriately designated space to receive notation of the'total money equivalent of said entries; and hav ing on its reverse face a negotiable instrument with. appropriately designated spaces to be filled out in payment of said total money equivalent whereby, upon endorsement a receipt is thereby had.

2. A voucher sheet having on its obverse Face a heading space appropriately designated to indicate the payee, a straight time space, an overtime space, said time spaces divided into a plurality of day spaces followed by total time, rate and amount columns, the amount column extending below the time spaces and being intercepted by a less deduction space and a balance due space, itemized deductions spaces underlying the time spaces and opposite the less deduction and balance due spaces, and a transversely arranged endorsement space in advance of the time and heading spaces; and having on its reverse face a negotiable instrument with appropriately designated spaces to be filled out in payment of the total money equivalent noted in the balance due space Whereby, upon endorsement, a receipt is thereby had 3. A plurality of complementary pairs of voucher sheets, a holder to retain the sheets together, each pair comprising a record sheet and a separable sheet, each sheet having on its obverse face a plurality of appropriately designated time divisions to receive notations of a plurality of labor charges, whereby each complementary pair is adapted to receive the same charge notations, each separable sheet having a line oi separation adjacent the retaining means whereby the major portion of the separable sheets may be removed from the holder, each separable sheet also having on its reverse face a negotiable instrument with spaces to be filled out for payment of said labor charges.

In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand this 18th day of September, 1920.

FRANK W. DREW. 

